Saturday, January 30, 2010

Valentine Crafts

This is a really simple craft for young kids. All you need is dollar store frames, glue and candy hearts.

Start by filling the center of your frame with glue. Yes, right on the glass. If you want to, you could paint the center pink or slip a piece of pink paper in there, but I did not think of that before we started and I had 6 kids 5 and under making this craft. Keep it simple.

Help your neighbor.

Next, just start stacking the Valentine hearts. You can make a pattern or have the kids counts the number of hearts or shout out the colors and then you can call this a teaching moment.

As long as you have all that stuff out, you may as well make one of these as well.

Take a paper plate and have each child draw and X and an O with a permanent marker.

Trace along the lines with glue.

Add hearts and you are done!

Yes, I did let the kids each 5 hearts each after lunch.

Question for you: the Sweetart Twilight candies I pulled out (left over from our New Moon party) tended to bleed when they came in contact with the glue. Do you that was intentional on the part of the manufacturer? Bleeding . . . vampires . . .

About Me

I am a busy Mormon mother with three children from my first marriage and four bonus children in New York.I am a child of God.I am blessed with three wonderful extended families and many amazingly talented friends.I work full-time in a dental office and we live in a little 1940's rental just five blocks from the public library.

I adore Oregon.

I am happy. I am busy. I am loved.

I may be changed by what has happened to me, but I will not be diminished by it. Maya Angelou

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing."-Anais Nin